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An experienced Safeguarding detective has been appointed as the new Assistant Chief Constable of Durham.

Tonya Antonis, currently serving as a Chief Superintendent with Suffolk Constabulary, will take up her post at the end of February. Although she has held...

Farooq Hakim takes up vital role at the University of Sunderland

A former student and successful North-East businessman is set to take up a new role as Chair of the Board of Governors at the...

Bradford Council launches domestic abuse scheme where victims can seek help in fire stations

A pilot project which sees victims of domestic abuse being able to seek help in fire stations launched across Bradford yesterday. The district-wide scheme, called...

Bradford Libraries to celebrate 150 years of serving the community

This year Bradford Libraries will be celebrating 150 years of serving the people of Bradford. When it first opened in June 1872, Bradford Public Library...

Covid vaccines to be offered to children aged five to 11 from April

Children aged five to 11 in England with no underlying health conditions are to be offered covid jabs from April. No definite timeframe has...

“With a little bit of skill and a lot of drive, you can move mountains” says marketing CEO

After being made redundant from a marketing job in 2007, Jag Panesar launched his own digital marketing firm, Xpand. Now in its fifteenth year, the...

Methodist parish remember Shanti Nager destruction twenty-five years on

A Methodist church in Undercliffe has remembered the plight Christians in the Shanti Nager village of Pakistan went through in 1997 in a special...

Successful Sangam Festival to return to Kirklees for second year this summer

Sangam Festival: A Celebration of South Asian Heritage will return to Kirklees this summer after securing funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and...

Free covid tests could be scrapped as part of the Government’s learning to live with covid strategy.

Asian Standard has learned free covid testing could be dropped as early as next week as part of the government’s ‘living with covid’ strategy....

Urgent action is needed to solve problems of ethnic inequality in the NHS according to a damning report.

A damning report commissioned by the NHS Race and Health Observatory has cited radical action is needed urgently to tackle “overwhelming” minority ethnic health...

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